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why is it that when people abbreviate the C-word with an X, they alwasy stick in a T after? eg, Xtina & Xtian music
I mean, does X not inclued the T in ChrisT? Or did I miss another memo from the Vatican?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

cos Xina and Xian look like Bond villainesses?

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

good enough.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, not good enough. That's bullshit man. What's the point of abbreviating something, if you're just going to add an extra letter?

Like damnit.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to nitpick, but shouldn't it be 'Xina songs'? I mean we don't use Xtmas
-- Oops (buttch9...), February 5th, 2003.
It's not 'Chrissina', so the spelling is OTM.
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), February 5th, 2003.

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So it's Chrismas then?
-- Oops (buttch9...), February 5th, 2003.

After pasting this, I realized I don't actually give a fuck.

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we should talk about the HIV virus, instead.

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, who's got it?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

...that wasn't meant to seem glib...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I changed my mind, we should talk about ATM machines. Don't you hate having to punch in your PIN number all the time?

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://garbl.home.attbi.com/stylemanual/redundant.htm

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, that's an awesome link, uniquely special and tall in stature.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I dayjob as a journo, and have seen a lot of style guides, and this is one of the best I've seen online.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, that guide is absolutely indispensable

― Oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Mind you, when I freelance for by-the-word fees, sometimes I do just the opposite of what I should be doing and try to stretch pieces out with as many of those little unneccessary and not-needed words and phrases and bunches of words as I can.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally and for my own part I think of that, the aforementioned, as not only a sensible course of action or thing to do but one that, indeed, also makes a great deal of logical and rational sense in the mind of he who is considering the amount of sense that it might actually make of itself.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

right.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's cuz the next letter can't be a vowel.

Xtian works, whereas Xian looks like it spells "zion" which is a bit coincidental, but ironic too in a way.

The exception being:
X-o-rama, because of the hyphens.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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